Four of those arrested have a police record. Of the group in general, the ages fluctuate between 17 and 23 years.
The investigation of the Prosecutor’s Office together with the Investigative Police (PDI) identified and triggered the arrest of 12 young people for a series of disorders and damage to the interior of the campus from the University of Concepción in the summer, to which neither is linked as a student or worker.
Several are habitual criminals, whose ages fluctuate between 17 and 23 years, who acted in concert and hooded, throwing Molotov cocktails or confronting Carabineros.
According to the investigation, some of these participated in the burning of a van, a police car, a sentry box and smashed glass.
In total, the group adds about eighty crimes, according to Guillermo Henríquez, the prosecutor in the case.
The misdeeds were committed between February 7 and March 6 of this year and, to recognize the violent, the personnel of the Brigade of Special Police Investigations (BIPE) reviewed more than 250 hours of images of all kinds.
Apart from photographs, they also analyzed videos of security cameras, of individuals and others shared on social networks.
The twelve young men were captured after raids carried out in Concepción, Quilacoya and Santiago, explained the prefect Consuelo Peña, head of the Macrozona Sur prefecture.
Faced with the repetition of the facts, the university presented more than one complaint, said Andrés Cruz, a former prosecutor and sponsoring attorney for the private campus.
One of the crimes charged was the damage to national monuments, which has an aggravated sanction and whose sentence starts in 541 days.
